US Patent 10141075 Predicting and mitigating risk of ectasia and optimizing therapeutic outcomes

Systems and methods are provided for evaluating an eye of a patient. A modeling component is configured to determine a representation of at least the cornea of the eye from a three-dimensional structural image of the eye and at least one biomechanical property of the eye. A feature extractor is configured to extract a plurality of features from the model of at least the cornea of the eye. An ectasia evaluation component is configured to calculate at least one parameter associated with the risk of ectasia in the eye from the extracted plurality of features. A system output is configured to provide the calculated at least one parameter to one of a treatment system and a user.